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Dear Art Friends,
This is an introduction to my art blog. I have wanted to do this for a long time because between commissions and large gallery paintings I do little oil sketches of ideas for future paintings or just small things of beauty that strike me at odd moments. Because I paint every day, after a while, these little canvases add up. So I thought I would share them with you. I will be sending them out about every week or two. If you enjoy them, please forward them to friends on your email list. If you do not want to be bothered, no problem just cancel the blog.
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Thanks, Nancy Paris Pruden
Archive for November 2009
11/30/2009 | By Nancy Paris Pruden | Comment on this
Cool Cat
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
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Pet Portraits
This portrait of a copper-eyed Persian cat is another example of my pet portraits, however I photographed this cool cat myself. I’m sure Lori Brewer, the professional pet photographer I am now using, would have done a better job, but this cool cat was living with us at the time so I just took my chances. I particularly love to paint hair and a Persian has a lot of that! All white and all black animals are a unique challenge to paint because they can quickly become boring if you don’t try to find other colors within an all one color pallet. Note all the colors I used to describe this cat. Contrary to what you might think, the more colors you use the more realistic the image appears. Nature is very colorful!
View from the Bus Stop
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
Painting on the Street
Plein air painting in a city is full of challenges. First, try not to get hit by a car, or knocked down by the crowd, or get gassed by buses. All these difficulties were present the morning I painted this little painting of the view from the San Miguel main bus stop, but what can you do? The sun was just coming up behind these incredible colorful church spires… I couldn’t just walk away from such beauty, could I?
Lavender Field in Pozos
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
Old Mining Town of Pozos
One summer day an old friend and her husband invited us to paint with them in Pozos, which is 25 miles from San Miguel. This once opulent colonial town lived through several gold bonanzas from 1576 through the Mexican Revolution of 1910. There are still many beautiful old ruins from it’s former day’s of glory. Today many gringos are building homes in Pozos and we painted in this garden complete with lavender fields. As a matter of fact, lavender grows quite well in this cool mountain desert and is starting to be grown commercially.
This little painting, which I did that day, was a natural combination of complimentary colors. What could be better than purple and yellow to give zing to your painting!
Turquoise and Orange
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
The Miracle of Attention and Focus
Robert Glenn is an artist, writer and teacher who recently wrote an article about the power of focus in painting. He suggested the artist give herself only one hour to start and finish a painting, sooo I decided to take his challenge to my painting class. Apart from producing many beautiful underworked paintings, the exercise demonstrated the power of full attention and unwavering focus. The mind quickens and so does the spirit! Learning to focus and pay attention has been identified as a primary key to the development of human effectiveness. “Turquoise and Orange” is one of my hour paintings.
To quote Ralph Waldo Emerson, “To fill the hour- that is happiness.”
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